The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought

Abstract

In the last several decades, interest in the Exilic and Postexilic Periods of ancient Israel’s history has grown, especially as this era has been recognized to be important for the formation of the Hebrew Bible. One of the scholars at the forefront of interest in this period is Sara Japhet, now Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor Emeritus in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This volume, which is based on Japhet’s 1973 Ph.D. dissertation at the Hebrew University, was first published in 1989 and rapidly was recognized as a major distillation of the themes underlying the ideology of the book of Chronicles.